Fuzz Facts - Fuzz Face Mini: Band of Gypsys Edition
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Episode one of the Fuzz Facts series of demonstrations. The Band of Gypsy's fuzz is reportedly based on the Octavio circuit with the octave removed. It's well-known that Jimi used a white knobbed fuzz face at Woodstock, Berkley, and on the Band Of Gypsy's live album. Dunlop claims this is the circuit that Jimi had tucked away inside that Fuzz Face (placed their by Roger Mayer undoubtedly)
Come with David on the journey through the land of fuzzy goodness.
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Purple Haze!
I like my fuzz Face but it does not deliver the frigid pink tone I am seeking
He used this with the band of gypsy and through 1970 up until his death in September of 1970
While this might actually be true, it's important to note that many of the stories surrounding Hendrix's gear are wildly inconsistent and unprovable. Even Roger Mayer has admitted that he lost the notebooks that detailed many of the modified fuzz face circuits Jimi was employing at various times.
This is a best guess about what that circuit was and I think it's pretty clear no one knows if he was swapping between this and something else at various times on tour etc.. Point is, this thing is geared to get that Band of Gypsy's sound, and it does a good job at it.
Hendrix used that BOG unit alot in '69, but for the bulk of 1970 it was just stock sillicon Fuzz Faces and Not the BOG fuzz face.
I have this and love it! It also can double as an overdrive wth both controls at 12 o'clock!
Cool...i like..greetings to all friend
Nice demo. I'm thinking of buying one, but i think it is rather expensive, so, i'm thinking about building my own.
Unless you can get your hands on vintage transistors and measure/match them for gain and leakage I wouldn’t recommend it. Fuzzes are expensive pedals due to labor and component selection.
@@PracticalGuitarist Thanks for you reply. Don't you think modern, "regular" componentes will work?
@@Georg89@Practical Guitarist. Yes sure they will. That's what is one of these mini fuzz faces anyways, It's all modern components you can get your hands on today, and nothing special or vintage, going on component wise in these. There's even surface mount stuff going on in there we won't even get into. Certain types of germanium transistors are hard to come by nowadays, but most silicon transistors can be sourced out. Some vintage purests may say certain things about the caps and resistors being a certain type of old Mullard blah blah, but in truth, modern metalized film type components have better tolerances, are actually lower noise and more consistent from part to part, than most vintage electronic components found in these original circuits. Also.... this is circuit is not even a fuzz face. Its a fuzz circuit Roger Mayer built into a fuzz face enclosure , supposedly a modified variant of an octavia without the upper octave (If you A/B this Dunlop FFM6 and a Fulltone Octa-fuzz with the octave switch off, they are near the same fuzz sound). In '69 you couldn't just get aluminum pedal enclosures because pedals barely existed so they just built them into scraped and gutted fuzz face enclosures . Through the time Roger was working with Hendrix engineering his sound, a lot of the fuzz faces he used were actually axis fuzz circuits and variants.
Nice purple haze
Thanks, much appreciated.
-David